Another name of L-ascorbic acid is vitamin C count to be important factor present in the human body
. Most of the time metabolic reactions in animals and plants needs vitamin C.
Vitamin c is commonly occurs naturally in organisms. It also plays an important role in guinea pigs and other species of birds and fishes. The vitamin c deficiency leads to scurvy in the human body. Also vitamin c is used as food additive for commercial activities in the market.
The users of vitamin c act as oxidative stress along iwth acting as a cofactor in vital enzymatic reactions. Not only this it also helps in correcting the antioxidant level of the human blood. It is found that few animals and plants have the capacity of synthesizing vitamin c in the them. Also many enzymes helps in converting glucose in vitamin c. Biosynthesis process one can see in many mammals such as reptiles and birds as this process of biosynthesis plays an important role in the production of vitamin c.
Animal such as adult goat do carries vitamin c which helps in reduction of stress. One should have good lev el of vitamin c in their b ody so that incase they might come across trauma and injury should get benefitted by this. In few organisms such as yeast called saccharomyces cerevisiae do has the ability of synthesizing vitamin c from sugars. Scurvy occurs due to lack of vitamin c does not allow the collagne to work in the body in that condition.
Symptoms of scurvy shows signs of spoty skin, spongy gums, bleeding from the mucous membranes. Person becomes quite pale, weak and depressed. There is always a little source of vitamin c found in the body so one should keep the habit of oral consumption of vitamin c overcome its lackness. For further details of vitamin c one can read science booklets to get more benefitted.